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Esther Ann Boler.

Esther Ann Boler

Associate

Expertise: International Trade, Innovation and Productivity

Telephone:
020 7594 2636
Email:
e.boler@imperial.ac.uk
Links:
CEP Trade
Imperial College London

Biography

Dr Esther Boler joined Imperial College Business School as an Assistant Professor in August 2016, after completing a PhD at the University of Oslo.

Current areas of research include:

  • The effects of innovation and globalisation on firm performance.

Publications

Blog
How an oil price crash sparked clean innovation: Insights from Norway

The transition to clean energy will require a significant reallocation of technological investments away from fossil energy sources towards cleaner alternatives. This column investigates whether leveraging the technologi... Read more...

Esther Ann Boler, Katinka Holtsmark and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

01 May 2025

CEP discussion papers
Shock therapy for clean innovation: within-firm reallocation of R&D investments

We analyze how a major negative shock to the producers of fossil fuels may lead to a shift from dirty to clean R&D along the supply chain. First, we develop a theoretical framework of directed technical change, showing t... Read more...

Esther Ann Boler, Katinka Holtsmark and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

13 December 2024

CEP discussion papers
Strapped for cash: the role of financial constraints for innovating firms

This paper makes use of a reform that allowed firms to use patents as stand-alone collateral, to estimate the magnitude of collateral constraints and to quantify the aggregate impact of these constraints on misallocation... Read more...

Esther Ann Boler, Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

14 March 2023

Chapter
Firm-to-firm connections in Colombian imports

The vast majority of world trade flows is between firms. Only recently has research in international trade started to emphasize the importance of the connections between exporters and importers both in aggregate trade fl... Read more...

Andrew B. Bernard, Esther Ann Boler and Swati Dhingra

13 February 2018

Journal article
Exporter dynamics and partial-year effects

Two identical firms who start exporting in different months, one each in January and December, will report dramatically different exports for the first calendar year. This partial-year effect biases down firstyear export... Read more...

Andrew B. Bernard, Esther Ann Boler, Renzo Massari, Jose-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni

01 October 2017

Journal article
R and D, international sourcing, and the joint impact on firm performance

This paper studies the impact of an R&D cost shock on R&D investments, imported inputs, and their joint impact on firm performance. We introduce imported inputs into a model of R&D and endogenous productivity, and show t... Read more...

Esther Ann Boler, Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

01 December 2015

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